WOMEN’S SHOES IN 100 A.D.
Leather soles of shoes belonging to the Roman women of Londinium in the first century A.D. were -among the interesting discoveries at Founders Court, Lothbury, London, recently, where excavations are proceeding on the banks of the River Wallbrook near the Bank of England. Small and pointed as any modern shoe, these leather fragments, embedded in the mud of the old Wallbrook, have survived the ravages of time to show that the Roman girl was as proud of her footwear as is her modern sister. Three such soles have been found, and none of them is worn in the slightest degree, apparently indicating that the owner had discarded them as out of fashion. The high heel had not yet made its appearance, for one of the women’s soles has a low heel, something like a rubber one still fastened to the leather.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 5
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146WOMEN’S SHOES IN 100 A.D. Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 5
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